On the 25th September 2010 I set off to a job interview/camping trip to Gloucestershire, after the interview on the following Monday I was on my way through South Wale.

Campsite in Coleford Gloucestershire

I camped at another three campsites on my way through Wales from Brecon Beacons to Snowdonia National Park

I had the time of my life as much as you can have alone as I travelled through the amazing countryside of this fantastic country the scenery is breathtaking around every corner, lakes and mountain its like the Lake District stretched out I remembered thinking to myself.
My aim was to reach Snowdonia National Park and hike Snowdon via Crib Goch and maybe even do a Wildcamp somewhere on route.
I reached the planned car park and took out my bulging backpack and made my mind up to go light over the Crib and just do Snowdon and do a Wildcamp afterwords after phoning my friend Paul from Denbigh in Denbighshire and arranging to meet him later in the day.

The highest point on the arête is 923 metres (3,028 ft) above sea level. All routes which tackle Crib Goch are considered mountaineering routes in winter or scrambles in summer—meaning that they must cross "graded territory" as defined in Steve Ashton's "Scrambles in Snowdonia".[2] The easiest of these lines (the "bad step" part of the route) is given a scrambling grade of Grade 1 (the most difficult being Grade 3—routes more difficult than Grade 3 are considered rock climbs).

Route

The "knife-edge" arête of Crib Goch (foreground) and the pyramidal peak of Snowdon (background) are both the result of glaciation.

The classic traverse of Crib Goch from East to West leads up from the Pyg track to a "bad step" where hands and feet are both needed briefly. It is followed by ascent to the arête, before tackling three rock-pinnacles to a grassy col at Bwlch Coch. This first part of the ridge is exposed with precipices below, having resulted in several fatalities, even of experienced mountaineers;[3][4] the Snowdonia National Park Authority describe it as "not a mountain for the inexperienced".[5] Moreover, on fine days the ridge may be very busy and queues can form. To avoid the long queues on the ascent from the east, it is possible to ascend Crib Goch's North Ridge, which adjoins the main ridge. It is recommended that walkers who use this route do have climbing skills and climbing equipment.

It is possible to ascend Crib Goch from Bwlch y Moch SH663552 or from Nant Peris, an ascent via Cwm Beudu Mawr.

The next time I was to ring Paul was from my rescue point on Crib Goch how embarrassing, I will not go into the details here as the vid below tells the story, what I will talk about is the Wildcamp I had afterwards with my new friend Paul whom had driven a couple of hours south-west to meet me at the car park where I had parked to do my Crib Goch attempt.
We drove a few miles down the road to a lake by the side of the road which I had seen passing and thought to myself at the time that would be a nice wildcamp spot.
Unpacking our rucksack’s from the cars we headed over a wall to some trees by the side of a river where we setup camp, Paul had brought a few cans of beer to down and they were very welcome too 🙂 , we laughed and joked all night with very little sleep.
I had met a very nice and one of the funniest guys I had ever met and will never forget the wonderful time I had spent travelling through Wales , cheers Paul.